[OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations

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I agree with Jo and Maria.  I've always felt welcome in OSGeo primarily
because I share many interests and philosophies with many of you.  I think
gender quotas will in long run do more damage than good. I'd hate to think
people think I am where I am because of my gender or that people let me get
away with stuff just because of my gender.
 
People should be judged on merit and interest primarily and we should focus
more on global expansion, education, and activity funding and the rest will
fall into place.
 
Thanks,
Regina Obe


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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jo Cook
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 10:59 AM
To: María Arias de Reyna
Cc: osgeo
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations


I totally agree with Maria. As a female member of OSGeo I don't really feel
that my gender matters in the slightest. I'm far more concerned about a bias
towards people from the US or Northern/Western Europe if we are trying to be
truly global. 

Jo


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, María Arias de Reyna
<delawen+osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:





On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna
<jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:


It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female
nominations for Charter members.  I just want to bring this to the
attention of the whole community.

Thanks all,

-jeff




Agreed. 

On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of their gender.
In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female numbers. (It won't be the
first time someone thinks I am where I am just because I am female and not
because I worked hard.)

I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all this
stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough female in tech
organizations. If we want to have more female on OsGeo, we should go to
school now to have them in OsGeo in a few years :)

Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different? I know it
looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really important?

Regards,
María.

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